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Thursday, 6 December 2012

Mobile phones are increasingly important part of our lives, and we seem to be doing everything but making phone calls. For example reading the news, watching a YouTube video, and taking photos at events like the World Cup are things we expect to do on mobile phones. Google’s mobile operating system is well on its way to bringing flashier features to Android phones. Android is a software platform for mobile devices. Then if you are a Andriod Mobile Use, you will not miss following list. We prepared 10 the best applications for android you must have. But it is just a begin, hope you can share us what you like best.

AndFTP is a FTP/SFTP/FTPS client for Android devices. It allows managing several FTP servers. It comes with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser. It provides download and upload features with resume support.

Improve your photos with color corrections, sharpen, and red-eye removal. Be creative with paint, word balloons, and stickers. Or have fun with distortions, cutouts, special effects, and more. It also have free edition.

Google has always lead the world with its innovations. These innovations became the necessities for the Google users. Previously, when we talked about the smart phones, there were Apple, Blackberry, etc but in late 2007 Google made a progress in smart phones as well and the product was the Google Android Operating System. There are a lot of simple mobile phones in the market but all the phones are not really smart. The hardware might look alike while looking at two phones but what makes a mobile phone really smart is the operating system.Android was a separate brand previously and acquired by Google in 2005 making a big deal. It was acquired to attach the Android OS with the upcoming innovation by Google. It was to be a smart phone. The product was awesome when released in 2007 and came out to be the Apple iPhone’s biggest contender. This smart phone does not require to uninstall software after it has been expired just because it runs an open source operating system. The main source of this operating system is the Linux. It is because Linux operating system is totally open source and you do not have to pay for the renewal of the licenses once it has been acquired. Previously, the Linux operating system was being used in desktop computers, servers and notebooks. This was a fresh launch into the smart phone devices.

Advantages of Google Android OS

There are many associated advantages of the Android operating system. It has revolutionized the world of smart phones. Let’s have a sneak peak of some of the advantages to be enjoyed by Google’s Android OS.

The main advantages that makes it preferable is that it is totally free. Google has really gone a long way in facilitating the users and the manufacturers.

Another feature that has already been discussed is that it is an open source operating system that really helps the developers. It has opened new horizons of research for the developers. This facilitates everybody who wants to modify the features and contents of this awesome operating system as per one’s own heart. All what is needed is just to download the source code and that code can be used to tweak the Android. That goes quite fabulous.

Simple Java language is enough if someone wants to modify it. This is a benefit in itself. This is the mostly used developing language and most of the guys are expected to be aware of that.

It has the ability to support a great number of hardware and software that really makes it different from others.

You have plenty of options when you are looking for downloading the applications because android OS supports a lot of applications and the portals. You can download from the Google platform or form any developer’s website.

One of the greatest features that go with Android operating system is that it is being manufactured by many manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, Samsung, etc. you have the option to select the smart phone as per your choice of brand. Moreover there is a variety of appearance and the hardware flavors that demands your attraction at the first sight.

Using the Android operating system smart phone really delivers a new experience and you would love that. Just with the launch of the Google’s Android OS, there are significant falls in the demands of the contending smart phones like Apple iPhone, Blackberry and the Windows mobiles. It has gone a long way in changing the smart phone trend of the world by capturing a big market niche.

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This article is provided by John Masters who writes for http://www.uninstallersoftware.net, a site featuring different tips for Google Android users

Most Android game developers don’t know what to do, they always admire iPhone developers can play it with the free game engine such as Cocos2d-iPhone, and complain there are no the same one on Android. In fact, we can find some good open source game engines for Android OS. Below is 8 open source Android game engines which I know. You can build your great Android game with them, and there are also some of them be stopped to develop, but you can learn a lot from them too. If you know any others, please don’t hesitate to leave your comment here.

This project is aimed to be a way to develop 2D games using OpenGL ES on Android providing as much speed as possible. The engine is entirely coded in java so you can overload every object for your convenience.

Catcake is a cross-platform 3D graphics engine intended to be easy-to-use and high performance, which also supports the features for game development, such as animation, input device handling and sound playing, it runs on Windows, Linux and Android.

Rokon is an open source game engine for Android based OpenGL ES. Unfortuantely the author stopped to maintain this project. If you only want to know something about game engine, you also can download and read the source.

But One thing i can be sure ; Once you start to learn a engine, stick onto it only.

This young final year Civil Engineering Student of Cochin University (CUSAT)got the brainwave from his friend, Yadhu, who said he would love to have an Iron Man costume at his home. Not long after, as Nadir was just browsing through Iron Man costumes on the net, it struck him that he could actually make a suit if he tried. And try he did.

Taking therpf.com (a movie props making community) as his reference, along with tutorials on Youtube, Nadir started making the costume. “It took me four months to complete it. Some parts were hard to figure out and finding the material was really hard.”

Along with using foam building techniques and EVA foam sheets, he used Pepakura – a 3D modeling software to make the costume. The cutouts were stuck together using Fevicol; the detachable parts joined using Velcro and buckles from old bags. As the foam sheets were too soft and useless by itself, he strengthened them by coating them with rubber adhesive. The finished costume was coated with two coats of primer grey and finally painted with trademark red and gold spray paint. The final touch was given by adding a dummy arc reactor, made using LEDs.

After months of hard work and many sleepless nights tirelessly working in his locked room, Nadir finally found his moment of glory when he saw his friends’ faces as he unveiled the costume, with himself in it.

“At times, I got really fed up. But I had given some hype to my friends that something new and innovative was going to be launched. After all, my room was always locked when I worked on the suit. So I didn’t want to give up hope and stop working on it.”

The pride and excitement in Nadir’s eyes is beyond comprehension, as he talks about his work. “My friends used to ask me what it was that I was working on, all day. All I said was to wait for it. After a while they started making fun of me. But when I revealed the final costume, the look on everyone’s face was priceless. I felt glorious.”

This aspiring youth plans to motorize his costume in the near future. He would like to make more cosplays(costume plays) and hopes to make it a business. He has already gotten clients wanting to have a similar superhero costumes in their homes as well. Not only has he inspired many teens to attempt to realize their dreams, but has also proved that anything is possible once you have you set your mind to it. “More than Iron suit, it’s your resolve that matters. To be everything you want to be.”

As Iron Man said, “Always be yourself. Unless you can be Iron Man. Then be Iron Man.”

And Nadir chose to be the Iron Man himself, the one and only Iron Man from India.

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

For beginning Android game developers, it is very common that they get lost frequently and do not know where to start and get their hands wet. Especially when they get problems that they can not resolve by themself, and be jealous about the free game engine such as Cocos2d-iphone that iphone developers have. Some start to complain that game development on Android platform is too difficult, and not even a decent game engine is handy to use. Some even think that using the Java language to develop games has lower ROI.

In fact, in the real world, as Android is becoming possibily the only strong competitor against Apple IOS or even pass it, there are for sure a lot resource that are available to Android developers, including quite a lot of Game Engines. Here I will introcude the eight common Android game engines for Android game developers (Notes: fee based, low downloads counts, Not Open Sourced and the game engines that I personally do not know (-_-) are not included here.).

1 Angle

Angle is a specifically designed for the Android platform, agile and suitable for the rapid development of 2D game engine based on OpenGL ES technology development. The engine are written in Java code, and you can replace the inside to achieve according to your needs. The drawback is that there are not enough documentations, and the codes available for download contains limited sample tutorials.

Rokon a the Android 2D game engine developed based on OpenGL ES technology, the physics engine is the Box2D-, and therefore able to achieve some of the more complex physical effects. The latest version is 2.0.3 (09/07/10). Overall, the biggest advantages of this engine is that its development documentation is complete and comprehensive. And the author of the project responds to bug report and feedbacks quickly and provid fixs and solution. As a result, this framework is currently the most widely used, and lots of developers call it it called it iPhone version of Cocos2d (logic, and coding style, did looks very similiar). Several Android Game framework are developed based on this frame (fee based, membership download only) . So we do not stereotype the claims that Fee-based engines are good good, open sourced and free are bad.

LGame is a Java game engine developed by China Android developers. It has two version: Android and PC (J2SE), the highest version is 0.2.6 (31/07/10). The underlying graphics LGrpaphics packaged with Graphics API provided by J2SE and J2ME (PC version uses the Graphics2D package, the Android version of Canvas emulation for rendering). As a result, developer can directly apply J2SE or J2ME development experience . The Android version has built-in Admob interface, and there is not need to configure the XML befort you directly hard-code Admob advertising information.

In addition to the basic sound, graphics, physics, Wizard and other common components of the engine, it alos has built-in IoC, xml, http, and other commonly used Java components package. The drawback is that the jar size is relatively big, the PC version jar size has exceeded 1.2MB, while the Android version is around 500KB. In addition, the engine is also built-in the J2ME Wizard class and related components that support 1:1 rending, the vast majority of J2ME games can be ported to Android or PC version. The only shortfall is that the author of the project is a very lazy guy, development documentation promised last year still not complete, and only game example is available for download.

andengine is also an OpenGL ES technology-based Android game engine, physics engine is the same as the Box2D (standard III). The framwork is average on performance, and lack of development documentation. However, it has a lot of code examples.

Libgdx is a game engine developed using OpenGL ES technology, and support 2d Game development for Android platform, the rendering was done by physical engine using Box2D. From the perspective of performance, it is a very power game engine for Android, the drawback is that the Wizard and other relate componments are not simple enough and user friendly, and documentations are also underdeveloped.

jPCT is a standard based on OpenGL technology development, 3D graphics engine (PC environment for the OpenGL, Android OpenGL ES), based on the Java language, has a powerful Java 3D solutions. The engine and LGame (This is a 2D game engine) is similar to, with a PC (J2SE) and Android two development versions.

jPCT of one of the biggest advantage is its amazing backwards compatibility. In the PC environment, jPCT can even run in the JVM1.1 environment, because the graphics rendering jPCT internal interfaces fully comply with all the Java 1.1 specification (and even the Microsoft VM has disappeared, even the old Netscape 4 the VM is no exception ).

Alien3d is a very small volume Android 3D game engine based on OpenGL ES technology development. In order to compress the volume, according to different functions using a multi-jar release (to include alien3d-engine.jar the alien3d-tiled.jar the alien3d-sprites.jar the alien3d-shapes.jar alien3d-particles2d.jar), in fact, it The core file is only about 40KB, the sum of all the relevant jar is less than 150KB.

Catcake is a cross-platform Java 3D graphics engine, support for the PC (J2SE) and the Android environment running (has been the iPhone version of Planning). All the outstanding performance of the engine in the ease of use and operational performance, support for game development, such as wizard animation, audio processing and video playback.

Thursday, 9 August 2012

Every networks has a loophole and yes, Tata Docomo even has it... Now it is simple to get 3g speed in your mobile at a 2g cost.Read the below steps carefully and then only follow it.. Also read the precautions before continuing.

1. Recharge your mobile for the lowest 3G pack available at your place. In
my area, it is at Rs.9 for
10Mb. According to regions it will change
from Rs.9 to Rs.11 . To find what is the lowest pack in
your region,
dial *141# and select 3G internet.

2.Connect the internet using the access point named TATA.DOCOMO.INTERNET.
If you don't have
the settings, sms INTERNET to 52270 and save the
settings as default.

3.Using the default browser of your phone, just load your homepage; for
instance www.google.com
or something. You will see the page loading in
3G speed since it is connected to 3G or H tower.

4.Now the trick begins; With the internet connected, just dial *141# and
select the 2G internet
recharge packs. Select the most suited one for
you. It ranges from Rs.5 (50Mb) to Rs 65 (2.5GB) or
even above. Then
your gprs plan get changed, but still will be connected to 3G tower
itself..!

5.If you select Rs.5, then your gprs data remaining will be 50Mb. So, in
total for 9+5= Rs.14, you get
50Mb 3G internet. Think if you recharge
for Rs.65, then for 9+65= Rs.74, you will get 2.5Gb internet in 3G speed..!!

Now some of the precautions you should take:

Your
account should have enough balance for the two recharges mentioned. For
example, if you want 2.5Gb internet, you should have at least Rs.75
balance. If you want 50Mb, you should have a minimum balance of Rs.15.

Better change the network type to WCDMA only From GSM\WCDMA. Change back to GSM\WCDMA when the offer expires.

If the connection gets cancelled due to any reasons, do not continue, since the tower might get exchanged.

Don't use this trick if you are travelling since the tower may get exchanged.

Searching for ways to get internet on the mobile phone from your pc or lap?? then you are in the right spot. Follows these easy ways to get internet on your mobile.

1. First you need to make sure is you have a software, 'Connectify-me' installed in your pc or lap.
You can download connectify-me freely from this link.
You only need a free version of this software. This software makes your computer a wifi Hotspot.
That is, your laptop acts as a router.

2. Configure Connectify to with your specifications. You can even set a password to your network
and aslo select your own encryption type.
3. Turn on the wifi in your phone and laptop.
4. Connect and enjoy.. :)

Wednesday, 8 August 2012

There are many ways through which others can access your facebook
account. Most of the cases, the sole reason for an account to get hacked
is the account owner itself. The careless and poor behavior of us
leaves our account more vulnerable. Here are some ways through which u
can ensure your account safety.

1. First of all you need to do is activate the securities available in Facebook .

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Always enable secure browsing. It encrypts all your activity on Facebook
which makes it harder for anyone to access your information on Facebook
without your permission. Follow theses simple steps to activate Secure browsing in Facebook. Check this link

Facebook can notify you of a login from a previously unrecognized
device via email to your default email (the one you use to login) or
text/push notification on your mobile device. I recommend turning on at
least the login notification emails. Unless you’re logging in from 15
different computers each day, you won’t get backed up with emails.

People always worry about third-party applications and the security of
their Facebook account. With App Passwords, you can securely log into
apps using this generated password instead of your account password. The
downside is that it might disable some apps that can’t receive security
codes and lock you out of those apps.

Once you log in securely into your account from a previously
unrecognized location, Facebook will give you the option of naming that
location as a recognized device. Once recognized, Facebook will not
notify you of log in attempts from that device. This section lists all
your recognized devices and the dates you gave them access. You can
remove devices at anytime by clicking “Remove.”

Now, this is my favorite section! It shows you all your active Facebook
sessions. It tells you the device name, date accessed and approximate
location. The “current session” is always the one you’re currently using
on Facebook. If you notice any unfamiliar devices or locations, you can
always end the session by clicking “End Activity.” It will log the
other device out. I travel a lot, so I’m constantly checking this
section before and after I travel (at least one to three times a month).
It’s a good idea to check this section a few times a month just for
verification purposes.

2. Secondly, add a limit to the applications you use.
Applications are one of the main route through which others access your account.
There are amny applications such as farmville which give your personal details to third partys.
For more information about application threats read this.

3. Donot leave your account signed in when you are in a public computer.

Many of us donot have the habit of signing out from any website. Most of the time in cafes or in
a public computer, we can find people satying online in websites even if they go. we should
develop a habit in us to sign out from a website.

4. Better donot Use your Accounts in public.

Better donot use your facebook account or any other accounts in public computers. Many
applications and devices are now available in the market which records the every key you press in
your keyboard. A device in well known amoung hackers which is connected directly to the
keyboard wire of a PC which records the keystroke.These key strokes are saved into a text file
which can be checked to get your password or any thing you type. Also Plenty of software are
available in which has the same funtionality.

Keeping Your account safe is as important as taking medicines for prevention....
Always use secure browsing. Follow these steps to activate secure browsing
1. While in your facebook home page, click on the down arrow button and select Account Settings

2. Under the security tab, click on 'edit' next to the line 'Secure browsing is disabled '.